Undermining the UN is not a new US policy
But these drastic policy decisions did not spring out of nowhere. Trump’s unhappiness with the UN is multifaceted, and his decision to stop fulfilling Washington’s legally binding financial obligation may well be the logical culmination of decades-long US policy.In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration accused the UN of being a third-world, anti-US forum. To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a quarter of the regular budget and a third of the peacekeeping budget back then.
- ▪But these drastic policy decisions did not spring out of nowhere.
- ▪Trump’s unhappiness with the UN is multifaceted, and his decision to stop fulfilling Washington’s legally binding financial obligation may well be the logical culmination of decades-long US policy.In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration
- ▪To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a q
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| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:42:37 +0000 |
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OPINIONOPINION, Opinion|United NationsUndermining the UN is not a new US policyWhile acting as the official host for the UN, the US has sought to weaken it for decades.By Moncef KhanePublished On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026SaveShare Undermining the UN is not a new US policy on social mediashare-nodesSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoUnited Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar shakes hands with US President Ronald Reagan at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 24, 1984 [G Paul Burnett/AP]The annual general debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) starts on Tuesday morning in New York amid dire circumstances.
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